Rediscovering Home: A Father's Funeral

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Flanked by his mother, Lor Meas, and his brother Tin Vaun, Toro Vaun prays during a funeral held for his father who died in June 2011. The San Angelo cafe owner traveled back to his native Cambodia for the first time since he left almost 20 years ago to attend the funeral.

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Four of the Vaun children attending their father's funeral bow deeply to their mother, Lor Meas, as gesture of gratitude.

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Toro Vaun places gifts for the nine Buddhist monks that came to preside over a funeral ceremony for his father in Sisophon, Cambodia.

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Friends, neighbors and family attending the 100-day funeral ceremony for Sanet Vaun, father of San Angelo businessman Toro Vaun, participate in prayers at the family's home in Sisophon, Cambodia.

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Led by Lor Meas, funeral goers place rice in bowls for the monks that presided over the funeral of Sanet Vaun, Meas' husband and father of San Angelo business owner Toro Vaun, who traveled back to his native Cambodia to attend the funeral.

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Toro Vaun shares lunch with family and community members who came to his father's funeral at the family home in Sisophon, Cambodia. The funeral lasted two days.

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Toro Vaun gives a deep bow of respect to family members on his father's side. Before they came to his father's funeral ceremony, Vaun had never met them. Vaun traveled back to his native Cambodia to attend his father's funeral in Sisophon.

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Mourners gather at the Vaun Family home in Sisophon, Cambodia, for the funeral of Sanet Vaun, father of San Angelo business owner Toro Vaun.

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San Angelo businessman Toro Vaun shows photographs of his home in Texas to young family members during a break in his father's funeral at the family home in Sisophon, Cambodia. Vaun had not been back to his native country since immigrating to America in 1992.

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The Buddhist monks presiding over the funeral of Sanet Vaun begin their chants at the Vaun family home in Sisophon, Cambodia.

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Toro Vaun traveled back to his home country of Cambodia to attend the funeral for his father. Vaun had not been back to Cambodia since immigrating to America in 1992.